Latest legal news

Global law firm Nixon Peabody has dedicated the lower level of its San Francisco office to an R&D incubator focused on advancing and supporting startups led by LGBTQ founders. | 9yrs

A new article to the penal code has been passed by the Vietnamese National Assembly which would force lawyers to inform on their clients to authorities. | 9yrs

Blucora, a Texas-based provider of technology-based financial solutions - has hired Ann Bruder as its new chief legal officer. | 9yrs

Goeman Bind HTO, an international not-for-profit think tank and research advisory has announced that globally acclaimed policy specialist and corporate lawyer, Hemant Batra is to join its leadership team. | 9yrs

Samar Shah has launched a new San Antonio based boutique law firm, Shah IP Law, PLLC to concentrate on intellectual property counseling with an emphasis on patent portfolio development, patent prosecution and other advanced prosecution strategies. | 9yrs

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and leading Australian law firm Henry Davis York are exploring a potential combination that would create one of the largest providers of legal services in Australia. | 9yrs

Australia's biggest consumers of legal services have dramatically increased their spending on legal advice with the big winners being global and top-tier law firms. | 9yrs

ALM Intelligence and global law firm Morrison & Foerster have today announced the inaugural results of the General Counsel Up-at-Night Report at ALM's SuperConference in Chicago. | 9yrs

Expert evidence is useful in derivatives mis-selling litigation but not always prized by the judges. | 9yrs

California's legal market for marijuana is set to be worth more than $5 billion - and a destination for pot-loving tourists. | 9yrs

African and Chinese laws firms via Lex Africa and the Global Chinese Speaking Lawyers' Association have signed an MOU to boost Chinese investments in Africa by improving the confidence of Chinese entrepreneurs operating there. | 9yrs

ANSYS is adding to the ranks of its executive team by bringing on legal veteran Janet Lee as General Counsel and who will help the engineering simulation leader navigate sophisticated legal topics as it enters the next phase of its growth. | 9yrs

The legal profession has stepped up efforts to provide support to the victims of last week's fire at Grenfell Tower in West London. | 9yrs

A survey of 250 business owners has discovered that 54 per cent of business owners were baffled by employment law jargon. | 9yrs

The Assocation of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has launched a new third-party cyber due diligence service, Vendor Risk Service, to help law department leaders identify and mitigate risks among their organisations' third-party vendors. | 9yrs

The British Virgin Islands' legal services and legal framework is helping to drive over $1.5 trillion of investment globally - the equivalent to two per cent of global GDP - according to a report released today. | 9yrs

Lex Machina - a LexisNexis company - has expanded its Legal Analytics platform into commercial law in efforts to expand the tool beyond patent, trademark, copyright, securities, and antitrust law and to cover every federal practice area. | 9yrs

Lambda Legal, an LGBT legal advocacy group, is to open a Washington DC office in a move to intensify its work against the Trump administration and increase fundraising. | 9yrs

Whilst most would refuse to take advice from a robot for complex cases, one in five British people would put their faith in an automated, robotic service - such as a chatbot - to provide simple legal advice. | 9yrs